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Monday, 16 March 2015

Stropharia caerulea (Blue Roundhead)Visited one of my local haunts University Park Nottingham. Always a pleasure to visit on a Sunday morning. The students still being in bed and most other visitors walk around the lake so I can usually roam around undisturbed.The Blue Roundhead is an interesting fungus to see and photograph. The cap being between 3-8 cm across.The most interesting feature is the umbo which is bluish-green to yellow-green. Slimy texture. The coloured umbo soon changes to a pale straw colour with only a hint of green. I came across this solitary fungus at the 'hint of green' stage. A little difficult to capture in a photograph but the colour can still be seen. Despite what you might think, it does not have a distinctive smell.Its habitat is in grass/leaf litter - late Summer to Autumn. I found it during December 2014. It is not common and was my first sighting. Thanks to RR for confirming the identification from the photograph.A cold day and it was nice to take refuge in my VW T25 for hot soup and flask of tea.Below is a photograph showing the 'hint of green' on the cap umbo.More photographs can be seen on Browse 5 at www.fungiworld.co.uk